Sources: Christianity

Question 1

GOD’S NATURE - Omnipotent: Exodus 7-11

Answer 1

God caused the ten plagues

Question 2

GOD’S NATURE - Omnibenevolent: Psalm 86:15

Answer 2

‘You Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God’

Question 3

GOD’S NATURE - Omnibenevolent: John 3:16

Answer 3

‘God so loved the world that he gave his only Son’

Question 4

Evil and suffering are a test from God / Satan is the cause of all suffering: Job 1:8-12 *

Answer 4

-Job is a faithful and religious man who fears God. He lives in Uz.
-Satan challenges God to see if Job would still be faithful if he lost everything (10 children, great wealth, thousands of cattle)
-When God takes it all away, Job remains faithful.
Then there are more tests:
-Job has terrible sores
-3 friends come over and try to persuade him that God is punishing him.
-However, Job remains faithful.

Question 5

Humans cannot understand God’s logic or actions: Job 42:1

Answer 5

‘[You can do] awesome things beyond me that I don’t know’

Question 6

The Problem of Evil: Epicurus *

Answer 6

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Question 7

TRINITY - Holy Spirit: Mark 1:9-11

Answer 7

Jesus’ baptism: ‘Spirit descending on him like a dove’

Question 8

TRINITY - Jesus and God: John 10:30

Answer 8

I and the Father are one

Question 9

TRINITY AND CREATION - Holy Spirit: Genesis 1:1

Answer 9

‘The Spirit of God was hovering over the waters’

Question 10

TRINITY AND CREATION - Jesus: The Prologue (John 1:1)

Answer 10

‘The Word was with God, and the Word was God’

Question 11

CREATION - Dominion: Genesis 1:27

Answer 11

‘Fill the Earth and subdue it; and have dominion [over every creature on the Earth’

Question 12

CREATION - Stewardship: Genesis 2:15

Answer 12

‘The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it’

Question 13

CREATION - Imago Dei: Genesis 2:9

Answer 13

‘The Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life’

Question 14

INCARNATION: John 1:14

Answer 14

The Word became flesh and lived among us

Question 15

INCARNATION: Luke 1:28-33 *

Answer 15

Gabriel goes to Mary and tells her that she will give birth to Jesus, the ‘Son of the Most High’ - despite not having had sex

Question 16

CRUCIFIXION - Salvation/Atonement: Leviticus 16:20-22 (OT)

Answer 16

This passage describes animal sacrifices atoning for the sins of people in the Old Testament. When describing a goat it says ‘the goat will carry on itself all their sins’

Question 17

CRUCIFIXION - Salvation/Atonement: Isaiah 53:3-9 (OT)

Answer 17

This passage prophesies that someone will be rejected and suffer, but doing this for the sins of the people. (Christians believe it to be Jesus)

‘Surely, he took up our pain and bore our suffering’

Question 18

CRUCIFIXION - Salvation/Atonement: John the Baptist

Answer 18

‘The Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world’

Question 19

CRUCIFIXION - Salvation/Atonement: Matthew 26:26- 29

Answer 19

Last Supper. Jesus breaks the bread and then when he takes the wine he says ‘Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins’

Question 20

RESURRECTION: 1 Corinthians 15:12-14

Answer 20

‘If Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith’

Question 21

RESURRECTION: 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 and Luke 24:1-9 *

Answer 21

They give accounts of the Resurrection (that differ slightly) but are the same in general. Corinithians focuses on who Jesus met after death, and Luke focuses on the women finding the empty tomb.

Question 22

ASCENSION: Luke 24:50-53

Answer 22

‘While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven’

Question 23

Ascension: Acts of the Apostles 1:9-11

Answer 23

‘He was taken up into a cloud while they were watching, and they could no longer see him’

Question 24

Salvation - Divine Law: The Golden Rule (Matthew 7:12)

Answer 24

‘In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.’

Question 25

Salvation - Divine Law: The Decalogue Summarised (Matthew 22:37-39)

Answer 25

‘“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: “Love your neighbour as yourself.”

Question 26

SALVATION - Holy Spirit and Grace: Acts 2:1-6

Answer 26

The Holy Spirit comes and allowed them to speak in ‘to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them’

Question 27

Salvation - Holy Spirit and Grace: C of E Confirmation service

Answer 27

‘Let your Holy Spirit rest upon them’

Question 28

AFTERLIFE - Lazarus: John 11: 25-26

Answer 28

‘Whoever lives by believing in me will never die’ - People see this as Jesus promising them the Afterlife

Question 29

AFTERLIFE: John 14:2-7 (2 Quotes)

Answer 29

‘My Father’s house has many rooms’

‘No one comes to the Father except through me’

Question 30

AFTERLIFE - Particular Judgement: Luke 16:19-31

Answer 30

➢ A beggar (called Lazarus) lives at the gate of a rich man.
➢ The rich man never showed the beggar agape.
➢ When the Lazarus died he went to heaven (‘Abraham’s side’)
➢ When the rich man died he went to hell.
➢ ‘Remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony’
➢ ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’

Question 31

AFTERLIFE - General Judgement: The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats (Matthew 25:31-46)

Answer 31

➢ During the General Judgement Jesus will separate the ‘sheep from the goats’
➢ The Sheep go to heaven because they showed agape

‘For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was ill and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

➢ The Goats go to hell because they didn’t show agape. They did the opposite to the sheep.

Question 32

AFTERLIFE: The Apostle’s Creed

Answer 32

Jesus ‘will come to judge the living and the dead’.

Also, belief is stated in ‘the resurrection of the body and life everlasting’

Question 33

RESURRECTION: The Apostle’s Creed

Answer 33

The last of the beliefs that is required (possibly showing the importance of this) is ‘the resurrection of the body and life everlasting’

Question 34

AFTERLIFE - Resurrection: 1 Corinthians 15:42-55

Answer 34

‘The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable’

Question 35

Afterlife - Hell: Parable of the Weeds

Answer 35

Sinners ‘will them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Question 36

Afterlife - Heaven

Answer 36

People see God ‘face to face’ - ‘Beatific Vision’

Question 37

Afterlife - Purgatory: CCC

Answer 37

Where people ‘undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.’